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The final week in photos
The final week of our challenge saw us surpass our 25,000 mile target with a day to spare, and also raise over £50,000 – double our initial goal!
Adrian Howells and Calvin Bond completed an impressive 54 mile cycle journey through the sweltering Dubain desert in little over 3 and a half hours!
Guy Haynes, Tom Eatough, Richard Stocks and George Barnes, of the KBS Corporate operations department, took on a skiing challenge in light of the current Winter Olympics, and Caroline Steel took a very chilly morning swim in the Jubilee River.
Charity Added: Centrepoint
Centrepoint offers housing and support to UK from their centres in London, Manchester, and the North East and across the UK through their partnerships. Centrepoint wants to end homelessness for the next generation by eradicating homelessness by 2037.
Charity Added: The Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society
The Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society was established in 1971 to provide complete palliative care services for those diagnosed with cancer, whilst supporting their families and caregivers. The charity also provides information about cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and relief.
Charity Added: High Five
We are also pleased to be raising money for High Five, a charity based in Chorley that provides support to disabled children and their families.
The charity was set up in 2014 by a group of parents who recognised the need for a local support group for parents of children with serve disabilities. Over the years this has grown to help over 100 children by providing fun activities for the children and much needed support to their families.
Our favourite pictures from the past week
The past week has taken us from the River Thames, to Cape Town, back to the UK to Sherwood Forest, and then off to St Lucia!
Our Bolton office also organised a charity football match.
Here is a gallery of our favourite images from the past week, sent in from the K3 team.
Keep the pictures coming in, K3!
We passed our 10,000 mile mark on day 11 of our challenge, and this past week has seen our employees summit Snowdon Horseshoe, surf, take in a morning run across the beaches of Southern Spain, and enjoy the beauty of Cyprus.
Above is another selection of our favorite pictures from the past week.
Keep sending your photos in to news@k3capitalgroup.com to see your snaps featured here!
Our favourite pictures so far
From James Cheetham’s 10 mile canoe ride down the Leeds-Liverpool canal, to Chris Newell’s morning run on a crisp Maidenhead winters’ morning and Anthony Cobham’s hike through Bowness.
Randd’s Lee Middleton also took on a mammoth challenge of his own – cycling a 35 mile race on- and off-road from his home in Derbyshire to the Derwent Reservoirs, contending with a tyre puncture and a closed road causing him to re-route part-way through. Lee sent us an incredible photo from the sink plugs at the Derent Dam, site of the famous ‘dam busting’ flights of the WW2 pilots! Incredible.
Helping the environment as we go
Martin Robinson, Board member at K3, has taken our Around The World in 30 Days Challenge in his stride, clocking up miles on his morning walks along the beach with his dog Tilly.
Not only is Martin adding the daily miles to our grand total, but he also picks up litter on the beach as he goes, with Tilly bringing rubbish to him for a reward.
Each walk has a double benefit as Martin raises money for our nominated charities whilst also helping our planet, and Tilly loves it too, with Martin adding “Tilly brings rubbish to me for a reward but does get frustrated when she can’t pick something up!”
Thank you, Martin and Tilly!
How can excercise lift your mood?
Our challenge isn’t only about helping our chosen charities, but also for the benefit of each K3 employee. There are obvious physical health benefits to exercise, but often the more hidden and overlooked benefits are those on mental health.
It is widely known that exercise has a positive impact on mental health with the NHS more commonly prescribing exercise to improve a person’s mental state. The great thing about this is that a small increase can lead to noticeable benefits. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends as little as 45 minutes’ exercise three times a week to notice a visible effect on overall mood.
In addition to this, partaking in charity work can lead to enhancing life satisfaction and wellbeing, which can be further amplified when taking part as a team.
With this in mind, we have nominated ‘Mind’ as one of our chosen charities to support, which provides advice and support to empower anyone experiencing mental health problems.
WE DID IT!
We did it.
We completed 25,000 miles in (less than!) 30 days.
More importantly, you have now raised over £50,000 for our nominated charities.
We should all be very proud of the difference we will make to these charities and their beneficiaries.
Thank you to each and every one of you.
Charity Added: Demelza
Established in 1998, Demelza Hospice Care for Children provides specialist care and emotional support to children and young people with serious or terminal conditions, whilst also supporting their families. Demelza has sites in based in Kent, South East London, and East Sussex. The charity focuses on creating memories for the families by providing medical care, short breaks and a range of therapies.
Charity Added: NCVO’s Nadine Andreas Foster Home
NCVO’s Nadine Andreas Foster Home provides a secure, friendly environment to care for up to nine children from birth to seventeen years old. The charity is based in the Cayman Islands and works to create a loving environment for the children in their care, since opening their doors in 2003.
Charity Added: Limbless Association
The Limbless Association was set up in 1983 with the mission to ensure that no amputee need to cope alone and to support families of amputees.
The charity operates across the UK and is the largest civilian limb loss charity in the country.
We have reached our £25,000 fundraising target!
Thanks to your hard work and dedication we have reached our fundraising target just 18 days into our 30 day challenge!
You have now travelled over 15,000 miles in less than 3 weeks, and with in excess of £10,000 donated through our Just Giving page, we have now exceeded our goal.
The hard work doesnt stop there, we are still determined to reach our 25,000 mile goal, and with additional donations already pledged from our generous partners, who knows how much we can raise by 11th February?!
Truly, thank you to everyone who has taken part or contributed in any way. You have made this possible.
Barrie Ross Dow completes 100 mile challenge
Barrie Ross Dow, Business Development Director and Quantuma, completed a remarkable 100 mile ‘Pelefondo’ – a long distance ride for Peleton riders – over the course of a single weekend!
Barrie completed the final 30 miles of his incredible challenge wearing his native Scottish dress, and he definitely looks the part!
Thank you for your efforts, Barrie, and a huge congratulations from all of us.
Team events are underway
The first weekend of our challenge presented the opportunity for many our Group’s individual departments to organise and take part in their own events to clock up the miles and take us closer to our 25,000-mile goal.
The KBS Corporate Operations and Sales teams took in the scenery of our hometown of Bolton, exploring Moses Gate Country park and hiking up to Rivington Pike respectively, clocking up almost 35 miles towards our target!
The Knightsbridge team also held a family event, inviting their partners, children and pets along on their stroll through Queen’s Park.
Thank you to everyone for their contributions!
And we’re off… CEO John Rigby records the first 20 miles of our journey
Our CEO John Rigby has kicked off our event, getting up before 5am on Day 1 to cycle 20 miles in a very impressive 1 hour 15 minutes.
He is now on his early train to London enjoying his well-earned coffee and breakfast!
We are delighted to see John wearing his new event t-shirt and are looking forward to receiving more photos and updates from across our Group throughout the day and in the weeks to follow!
Just how are we going to travel 25,000 miles?
There is no doubt that our 25,000-mile goal is a big one, so our employees will be participating in wide range of activity to help us reach our target. Walking, running, cycling, jogging, swimming, hiking and gym workouts such as using a stepper or rower will all be taking us one step (pun intended) closer to going ‘Around the World in 30 Days’.
Our employees will be using smart apps to record their progress, and we can’t wait to keep everyone updated over the coming month!
Charity Added: Meningitis Now
St Rocco’s Hospice supports Meningitis Now was established in 1982 and is the only charity in the UK dedicated to fighting meningitis. The charity’s goal is to ensure no one in the UK dies of meningitis and that everyone affected is supported whilst rebuilding their life.
Charity Added: Little Lady Locks
Little Lady Locks provides wigs, hair pieces and real hair systems for children and young people who have hair loss conditions. Little Lady Locks deliver these free of charge and offers free maintenance checks every 4-6 weeks.
Charity Added: St Rocco’s Hospice
St Rocco’s Hospice supports patients who have illnesses that are no longer curable. St Rocco’s Hospice’s mission is to ensure that these patients continue to live the lives they want for as long as possible whilst also offering support for their loved ones. This is something they have delivered since first opening their doors in 1985.
Charity Added: MacMillan
We are also supporting the Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Service at Royal Derby Hospitals.
The charity provides an advice, information, and support for everyone affected by cancer. The charity also offers a holistic approach by also offering counselling, therapy, and benefits advice to those across the Derbyshire area.
Charity Added: Bolton Hospice
Thanks to your efforts, we are delighted to annouce that we are able to support a further ten charities!
The first of these is Bolton Hospice, which provides high quality care and support to patients with life-limiting or terminal illness and their families. Now in its thirtieth year, Bolton Hospice not only provides care from a purpose-built hospice but also an advice line and hospice care within patients’ homes.
Quantuma’s Iron Man challenge!
Various Quantuma teams recently undertook a mammoth Iron Man Triathlon as part of their latest group challenge!
2.4 miles of swimming, 112 miles of cycling and 26.2 miles of running were broken down, such that each team completed an ‘Iron Man’ between them.
The teams completed the challange over the course of the weekend, with special mention going to Mike Horton, who sawm 2.1 miles, cycled 54.3 miles and ran 19.4 miles!
A brilliant contribution from the team and we are really grateful to those that participated, it was great fun watching the scores roll in over the Saturday and Sunday and encouraging each other on!
Executive Vice Chairman, Tony Ford, gets the miles in
Our Executive Vice Chairman, Tony Ford, has been getting the miles in through his scenic walks in Lancashire’s beautiful Ribble Valley.
Our former Chairman, Tony founded K3 and led its investment into KBS in 2007, helping to pave the way to create the K3 Capital Group that we all know today.
Celebrity Chef James Martin sends wishes of good luck to K3
Celebrity Chef and television presenter, James Martin, sends a message of support to all those taking part in our mammoth challenge!
Working together to achieve our goal
The randd and Knightsbridge teams are the latest to set their own challenges during the ‘Around the World in 30 Days’ charity event.
Our R&D team, randd, based in Derbyshire will taking in some local beauty as they hike across the Derbyshire Dales. The goal is for each person to complete at least 10 miles.
The Knightsbridge team will be carrying out a ‘Walk to Work Friday’ event to promote a more healthy and environmentally friendly commute whilst raising money for our chosen charities.
Good luck to our teams!
Knight CF team to cycle from Warrington to London
The team at Knight Corporate Finance have pledged an incredible contribution to our ‘Around the World in 30 Days’ goal.
In the spirit of charity, the team at Knight CF have pledged to cycle from Warrington to London. The team will be making the staggering 220 mile journey from their office in Warrington to their London HQ. The journey is expected to involve at least 20 hours of cycling!
Everyone at K3 Group wishes the team the very best of luck and will be with them in spirit as they take on this impressive physical and mental test!
Our event merch has arrived!
As our dedicated employees gear up towards the start of ‘Around the World in 30 Days’, on 13th January, K3 will be providing everyone taking part in the challenge with official event merchandise to help them reach our target.
All K3 UK and overseas employees can expect an ‘Around the World in 30 Days’ t-shirt and water bottle.
We are looking forward to seeing everyone represent the Group as they walk, run, cycle, swim, or row around the world in the next month!
THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS
